Before the Cap and Gown: Getting the UT Campus Ready for Commencement
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2016-05
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Illanes, Laura
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The University of Texas at Austin has come a long way since its first commencement ceremony. But one thing that hasn’t changed in all the years leading up to the 133rd Spring Commencement is the entire university community’s expectations for maintaining the honor and dignity of the occasion. What does it take to make the campus ready for commencement and to meet those high expectations? To find out, we went behind the scenes with one of the primary departments involved in creating this annual ritual: Facilities Services.
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Values at Work Series: Facilities Services developed our core values of Service, Integrity, Teamwork, Excellence, and Stewardship (collectively referred to as SITES) based on the way we approach our work. Our values can be found throughout our areas of services in many ways.Through a series of articles, the Values at Work Series is devoted to providing a closer look at how our values are hard at work. Each article focuses on an area of service and how that group incorporates our values in a significant way. We are proud of our employees who continue to serve as an example of “walking the talk” every day.
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Value: Excellence, Area: Facilities Services, Area: Project Management & Construction Services, The University of Texas at Austin, Values at Work Series, commencement, landscaping, Facilities Service Center (FSC), Events & Moving Services (EMS), maces, Keeper of the Maces, Solid Waste & Recycling, PMCS, Emergency Operations Center (EOC), Project Management & Construction Services (PMCS)